From: Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 22:06:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cvfet7q9j.fsf@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1C3HmW-0003xl-89@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:23:24 -0400")
Richard Stallman writes:
> But why don't we just let the default depend on
> system-type
> (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) ?*
> ?\\)
> Lots of other default settings already depend on
> system-type, so I don't see why this is any different,
> as long as we get the proper default for GNU.
> It is fine to do this, if the best default is different
> for different systems.
For users of DOS-like systems there is no "best" default,
since DOS command interpreters don't offer such functionality.
Indeed one of the advantages of Eshell is the uniform
interface across different systems, only possible because
it's written in Elisp. Make it gratuitously behave
differently without any advantage from this change is
counter-productive for the users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-04 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 3:31 small Eshell docfix Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 7:58 ` John Wiegley
2004-08-30 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-30 13:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-30 18:28 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 22:03 ` John Wiegley
2004-08-31 22:06 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-01 5:45 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-09-02 4:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 19:43 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-08-31 22:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-31 23:19 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-01 19:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-01 20:23 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-01 23:14 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-02 11:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-02 19:47 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-06 6:47 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-06 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 16:29 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-07 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 22:41 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-08 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-07 23:28 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-07 23:45 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-08 5:12 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-03 17:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-04 20:06 ` Emilio Lopes [this message]
2004-09-05 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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